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One of the major obstacles in deploying Electronic Health Records (EHR) apart from the usual political and technical reasons is the huge outrageous economic costs associated with the product suites involved in the deployment of EHR. So one option to reduce the costs might be looking at using Open Source software (OSS) to improve the financial viability of the implementations. Gartner has predicted that · By 2010, 90 percent of Global 2000 organizations will have formal open-source acquisition and management strategies. · By 2008, OSS solutions will directly compete with closed-source products in all software infrastructure markets. · By 2010, open source will be included in mission-critical software portfolios within 75 percent of Global 2000 enterprises. · By 2010, Global 2000 IT organizations will consider open-source products in 80 percent of their infrastructure-focused software investments and 25 percent of business software investments In this post I will look at the main featur